GR translation: What passes are these, so blurred, so old and perfect?

[jochen stremmel]

This really wasn't easy, Mike, but now I think, apropos corruptions,
that in "rooms fall of dust" is a typo, that there should be "rooms
full of" like in the line before; that "Forbidden" refers to the
Forbidden Wing in line 4 of the song; and that the passes are
movements of the hands that deal the unknown game.

Don't hesitate to ask if anything of the above isn't clear.

J

2012/6/14 Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>:
> P205.32-206.3   Why here? Why should the rainbow edges of what is
> almost on him be rippling most intense here in this amply coded room?
> say why should walking in here be almost the same as entering the
> Forbidden itself—here are the same long rooms, rooms of old paralysis
> and evil distillery, of condensations and residues you are afraid to
> smell from forgotten corruptions, rooms full of upright grayfeathered
> statues with wings spread, indistinct faces in dust—rooms fall of dust
> that will cloud the shapes of inhabitants around the corners or deeper
> inside, that will settle on their black formal lapels, that will
> soften to sugar the white faces, white shirt fronts, gems and gowns,
> white hands that move too quickly to be seen . . . what game do They
> deal? What passes are these, so blurred, so old and perfect?
>
> What are these "passes"?  Anything specifically related to gambling,
> magic, or just card games?
>
> And what is "the Forbidden"?